17 Jul
2000
17 Jul
'00
9:33 a.m.
I'm curious to know how list members feel about the
question of repairing
versus replacing common computers.
For example, in my area, Commodore 64s are extremely common. So if I
received a bad one, after checking for obvious faults I probably wouldn't
spend much time trying to troubleshoot it. It's easier to just find a
working one. The bad machine would either become a static display, or a
parts donor, or a very low priority rainy day project.
I sure wish I had sane reasons for a lot of what I do. Repairs are things I
just find myself doing without a lot of conscious thought. I do from time
to time have enough presence of mind to stop when it leaks into some
functioning portion of my brain that the object at hand is a worthless
piece of junk even if working, ie seriously yellow keyboard with missing
keycaps and broken screw mounting posts.
Having a couple boxes for different grades of "junk" helps a lot due to
magnet force all empty boxes exude. When you have a box for breakage, or
scrap circuit boards, they tend to get filled up. Without said boxes I tend
to put things down on any convient surface to "look at" later.